I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway. ~Johnny Vegas
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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Any fiction is bound to be transposed autobiography. ~Elizabeth Bowen
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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Poverty and anger do not agree. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
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Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease. ~David Hyde Pierce
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron
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The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. ~Robert Smithson
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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who eats alone, coughs alone. ~Arabic Proverb
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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A good companion shortens the longest road. ~Kurdish Proverb
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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes, and I loved it. ~Anne Lamott
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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